Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-09-30
PLAYERS AND PLAYHoUsES

9Circus in Town." John A. Mackay's ven
ture, has fizzled out.
Mrs James Brown-Potter has been photo
graphed in seventy flour new attitudes.
Lillian Olcott has purchased the American
rights 10 Sardou's new play which he has
written for Bernhardt.
The Eden theatre, Paris, is to be set up at
auction again Oct %; this time at half price,
or S620, 900, as the minimum.
1t is said that Mrs. Langtry will probably
follow AS in a Looking Glass" by an adap-
tation OF Dumas -Franeillon.
Richard Mansfield will do "Dr Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde" The Merchant of Venice" new
to him and Partisan Romance" on the
road
Nine Modjeska, who has said the same
thing several times before, declares that she
will retire from the stage at the end of this
season, sure.
Mile. Rhea, like other foreign actresses, has
declared her intentions" to become an Ameri-
can citizen, and has taken out her first
naturalization papers
Alexander Strakosch, famous German
dramatic reader, has arrived in New York.
lections from Lear" Hamlet" and other
plays.
The new Broadway theatre, New York, on
which work is progressing, is said to be the
only house in New York that has been con-
structed in accordance with the theatrical
building law.
Margaret Mather is now initiating the Jer-
sey Lily III tie matter of making occasional
land purchases. During the present season
Miss Mather has purchased property in Buff
falo and Chicago
Wagner has invaded South America. Der
Fliegende Hollander," under the more har-
monious title Of course, Of III Vasceilo Fan
tasma," having just now been given for the
first time at Buenos Ayres.
Two elegant and beautiful actresses, Mrs
Laugtry at the Fifth avenue and Nine. de
Naucoaze at the Lyceum, New York, are
showing that ladies can smoke cigarettes
gracefully if not admirably.
The new play that NJ. Sardou has made for
Mime. Barnhardt is named Deborah" and it
will be produced at the Porte St Martin
theatre, Paris, III December. 1t relates to
the period of the Reign Of Terror.
working young tragedian, will be seen in New
York for the first time this season He will
add to his repertoire civilian TELL" as also
play from French made famous by the
elder Coquehn
The queen has addressed to Wilson Barrett
a letter of coincidence on the loss of his wife
Miss Heath) and recalled in eulogistic terms
the time when that lady was her reader, also
expressing wish to possess a photograph of
the late actress
While parties in New York are contem-
plating the fitting up of theatre for the
Chinese, Chicago is nursing a project for
theatre exclusively for Gods images carved
in ebony But it may be questioned if the
colored people of that city will thank the
projectors for the location they have chosen
The new German theatre at Prague and
the Theatre de la Monnaie, in Brussels, have
been fitted out with a sunken orchestra, after
the fashion of Bayreuth. In the Brussels
house, however, the sunken floor can be
raised by means of hydraulic machinery,
until it is almost on plane with the parquet,
the Wagnerian system not being altogether
satisfactory when light operas are to be per-
formed.
Blondins have been so plentiful that doubt
is expressed that it is the original who is to
come 10 this country next spring. 1t is the
same rope walker who, more than thirty
years ago, delighted metropoitans with his
grace and startled them by his fearless dex-
terty, and later conceived and carried out
the daring project of crossing Niagara river
above the torrent on a rope more than 200
feet long. to which he was hoisted from the